Thanks for the insights, everyone! It's a rare day when I spend close to $800 for something and don't use it to the utmost - but's that exactly what I did with this one (must have been that 7th month of pregnancy I was in!) The evaluation has been gathering dust in a file cabinet for the last 5 years until I pulled it out, piqued by the comments on WISC results here.
To be fair, I think our tester was trying to be supportive and get us what we wanted (and probably saw many of the same things, as you said, Grinity). We had also well detailed our dd's coordination issues (it was like a working with a stroke victim at times & very scary), so that's likely why she jumped on the coordination diagnosis. That being said, it was disconcerting when she used some of our comments verbatim as reccomendations. Definitetly underminded a sense of "independent analysis."
I'd love to do a re-test simply to see if dd's made any progress on some of those sub-tests given her great strides in motor skills. However, "a nice to know" doesn't merit $800 in my budget these days! (If DYS doesn't take five year old results, however, $800 will likely be spent.)
Still ambivalent about reccomending this tester to others or using her with my sons, so I will check out the threads on reccomended testers.
Can't tell you how valuable I've found these forums (this thread marks my first participation ever in an online forum). So appreciate all of your time in replying! Hope to have some value to add myself at some point!
